CABLEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3553, 28 December 1881, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

IKKUTKK'S TELEGRAMS,] FATAL PANIC IN A CHUKCH. ST. PETERSBURG, December 26. Intelligence is to hand from Warsaw that a panic occurred yesterday in a church in that city owing to an alarm of fire. In the crush and confusion which followed, over thirty persons were killed, and a number seriously injured, THE POPE'S POSITION UNBEARABLE. ROME, December 23. Tho Pope, in receiving a deputation of cardinals to-day, stated in the course of his address that bis position in Rome was daily growing unbearable, and he feared that the Church would have to submit to farther severe persecution. GOVERNORSHIP OF NATAL, CAPE TOWN, December 23. It is announced that Sir Evelyn Wood has refused the Lieutenant-Governorship of Natal, and has embarked for England. THE DISCONTENT IN IRELAND. LONDON, December 23. A lady Land Leaguer has been summoned at Cork for seditious conduct. She was committed for trial, and as she refused to give bail has been imprisoned. LONDON, December 22. The proposed International Exhibition at Dublin has been abandoned, inconsequence of the disputes which have arisen between the members of the Executive Committee in regard to the proposal to ask the Queen's patronage. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CRONSTADT. LONDON, Decembc The " Standard " to-day publishes a telepram stating that fully one-fourth of the city of Cronstudt has been destroyed by Ore. The conflagration is further stated to have been the work of Nihilists. MR O'DONOVAN IN TROUBLE. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 26. Mr J. A. Fawcet, British Consul-General in this city, having interceded on behalf ot Mr O'DonovaD, who was found guilty of libelling the Sultan,tho latter has agreed to pan ion the prisoner, and the sentence ot six iiionthn' imprisonment posted upon him lma been remitted.